Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.